Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Odyssey is a prime example of the intertwinement of myth and rational labor. It illustrates the dialectic of enlightenment, as it shows clear links to myth, but it also contradicts those myths. The epic creates a universality of language, but it also disintegrates the hierarchical order of society. #2 The German late-Romantic interpretation of antiquity, based on the early writings of Nietzsche, recognized the element of bourgeois enlightenment in Homer. However, they saw this element as both positive and negative, and tried to liquidate it. #3 The most prominent and therefore the most impotent of the esoteric apologists of German heavy industry, Rudolf Borchardt, prematurely breaks off his analysis in the service of repressive ideology. He fails to recognize that the primal powers he extols themselves represent a stage of enlightenment. #4 The Odyssey is closer in form to the picaresque novel. The hero's peregrinations from Troy to Ithaca trace the path of the self through myths, a self that is infinitely weak compared to the force of nature and still in the process of formation as self-consciousness.

Quand on achète, au hasard, des disques dans des bacs d'occasions, on tombe parfois sur de sacrées surprises. C'est ce que se dit Jacques Laumier, en écoutant, gravée sur sa dernière acquisition, une étrange conversation dans laquelle un homme en menace un autre... Sketch ? Répétition d'une saynète ? Les intonations des personnages sonnent tellement vraies et les dialogues ne semblent pas écrits ! Troublé, Jacques Laumier en parle à son disquaire qui décide de confier la « pièce à conviction » à un de ses clients habituels : le brigadier GIRARD. Le policier remonte la piste et découvre que le rond de cire provient d'une vente après décès, celui du riche banquier Jules-Ernest Ravon, retrouvé suicidé d'une balle dans la tête...

Soldier Herbert Devereux is dismissed and disowned after deserting his post to rescue his half-brother Rupert in the heat of battle. Court-martialled, banished and in disgrace, Herbert is forced to change his name. Twenty years later, the half-brothers encounter each other once again, with unexpected consequences. A riveting tale from author E. Phillips Oppenheim, packed full of drama, suspense, forbidden love, and vengeance. E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was a hugely prolific and highly popular British author of novels and short stories. Born in Tottenham, London, Oppenheim left school as a teenager and worked for his leather-merchant father for 20 years prior to launching his literary career. Oppenheim published five novels under the pseudonym `Anthony Partridge' before establishing his reputation as a writer under his own name. An internationally successful author, Oppenheim's stories revolved mainly around glamourous characters, luxurious settings, and themes of espionage, suspense, and crime. He is widely regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of the thriller and spy-fiction genre as it is recognised today. Oppenheim's incredible literary success meant that his own life soon began to mirror that of his opulent characters. He held lavish, Gatsby-style parties at his French Villa and was rumoured to have had frequent love affairs aboard his luxury yacht. Oppenheim's success earned him the cover of Time magazine in 1927. Some of his most well-known novels include `The Great Impersonation', `The Long Arm of Mannister' and `The Moving Finger'.

C'est d'Amédée Guiard, plus que de tout autre, que l'on peut dire que la mort l'a révélé tout entier. Bien peu de ceux qui ont vécu dans son intimité - et l'auteur de ces pages en confesse son remords - surent voir en lui le saint qu'il était en vérité. (...) Que l'on n'aille point, là-dessus, s'imaginer un homme d'aspect austère, au visage grave et fermé, au langage sentencieux. Tout au contraire, le plus joyeux compagnon, d'une gaité d'enfant, naïve et jaillissante. La vie d'Amédée Guiard ne saurait nous être mieux contée que par lui-même, à l'aide des abondants documents qu'il nous a laissés.

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.